Fracking

Future of Coal has an Unexpected New Threat: Induced Seismicity

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The potential for underground injections to cause earthquakes was thought to be a problem for natural gas, but a new National Research Council study says the impacted sector will not be gas. It’s a problem for coal.

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), pulling carbon out of emissions from coal-burning and storing it deep underground, has been prominent in clean energy planning over the last decade as a way to keep taking advantage of coal resources to meet energy demand while tackling climate change. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 21, 2012 at 8:30 AM

NY Fracking Plan May Boost Local Opposition to Gas Industry

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

A reported plan by New York State government to allow natural gas drilling in a handful of counties may represent an effective lifting of the state’s moratorium on fracking but increases the chances that energy companies will run into local opposition, analysts said. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 14, 2012 at 12:15 PM

The Fracked Internet: Data Centers Could Emerge on Gas Fields

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Could data centers someday stand alongside drilling rigs in the Marcellus Shale gas fields? It is an increasing possibility, says an energy expert at an international buildings efficiency firm.

Data centers are sometimes built for the exclusive use of such giants as Google and Facebook, but most of them are intended for hosting companies, which process data for multiple tenants. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 14, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Cleantech Meets Fracking: Greening a Controversial Practice

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The oil and gas industry can bring new resources to bear in its battle against critics and efforts to achieve a “social license to operate.” A small cleantech firm has developed patented technology that allows producers to recycle up to 100% of their well flowback and produced water during hydraulic fracturing operations.

“We use and have invented an advanced oxidation process to treat water on the front end of the [fracking process] and at the flow rate of the [fracking process], eliminating liquid biocides and chemicals for bacteria growth and scale inhibition, and allowing 100% recycling of the flowback and produced waters,” said EcoSphere Technologies Chairman and CEO Charles Vinick said during a recent radio appearance. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Water Grab in Kansas Oil Boom

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In the farm country of southern Kansas, water is a precious commodity. And not just for farming — for fracking.

 /  Published June 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Social License Debate Divides US Natural Gas Sector

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International Energy Agency IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol (C) talks as Brazil’s state-controlled energy giant Petrobras CEO Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo (R) and and Italian energy giant Enel CEO Fulvio Conti (L) listen at the end of a press briefing at the IEA ministerial meeting at the OECD headquarters in Paris on October 18, 2011.

Oil and gas industry advocacy groups differed in their reaction to a new unconventional gas development report, highlighting the importance of a major US election issue and the messaging that surrounds it. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 1, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Oil Boom Chasers: Next Stop Kansas

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The spread of innovative drilling techniques combined with high oil prices have caused a renaissance in American oil exploration and production. The boom has been confined in large part to traditional oil-and-gas states like Texas and North Dakota, but other states that have seen resource dividends pass them by in previous eras are now enjoying their own expansions thanks to oil and gas development.

The latest round of American boomtowns to be profiled by CNNMoney lie in Kansas, and the site has profiled seven of the workers benefiting from oil investment even as they grapple with the challenges of a resource sector that often requires a high degree of mobility and a tolerance for isolation. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 30, 2012 at 2:30 PM

Sabine Pass Natural Gas Export Project Leads Controversial Trend

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Ten major natural gas export terminal projects are sparking a debate over the complicated balance between low domestic prices and the health of natural gas producers facing contracting returns on their investment in new production.

Would US exports of liquefied natural gas support an industry that’s struggling to produce the fuel at record-low prices, or would they deprive gas users of the benefits of those super-low rates? Keep reading →

 /  Published May 23, 2012 at 8:00 AM

EPA’s Jackson Says Fracking Water Study Won’t Stop Drilling

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson on Wednesday sought to tamp down concerns raised by Republican senators that the Obama administration will try to curtail shale gas and oil development through its studies of hydraulic fracturing.

At a hearing before a Senate Appropriations Committee panel on EPA’s $8.3 billion 2013 budget request, Jackson said a request for $8 million for additional hydraulic fracturing research was not intended to put new roadblocks in the way of domestic drilling. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 17, 2012 at 12:30 PM

Government at the Pace of Business: Evaluating US Election Year Energy Policy

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Energy policy in the US has been a prominent issue leading up to the elections this fall and the topic could gain momentum along the way. Commodity price manipulation, fracking, the Keystone pipeline and environmental regulations were just a few of the topics discussed at a breakfast panel held by the American Petroleum Institute in Washington DC this morning.

Recent upward trending US oil and natural gas production is great news for the nation, but the political system is driven by negatives, said former Senator and Congressman of North Dakota, Byron Dorgan. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 15, 2012 at 1:15 PM
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